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MEETING NEW WEIGHT AND TRAILER CONCESSIONS
up-rii characteristic enter pris e, VI' Thomas Tilling, Ltd., has pat into immediate service an .E.R.F. eightwheeler and trailer to carry a gross load of 32 tons. The concessions, embodied in a recent Order, will help, in no small degree, in rendering more effective the total carrying capacity of road transport. Further details of this outfit will be given in our next issue.
BOLTON FORMS AN EMERGENCY TRANSPORT POOL
THE Bolton and District Road Transport Association, 37, Mawdsley Street, Bolton, has sponsored the formation of an emergency road transport pool of a non-profit-making character, and .arrangements have been made to create the necessary reserve of. funds. The objects are to provide a medium for emergency transport by road for Government Departments, local authorities, and any necessary emergency traffics. The pool is open to all operators in the area covered by the Association,
It is considered that the scheme will play an important part in road transport's war contribution.
PROPOSED MERGER OF BIG ELECTRIC INTERESTS
THAT an important merger of battery-electric-vehicle interests is contemplated is indicated by the circulation to the shareholders in the Young Accumulator Co., Ltd., of a statement of negotiations which , have been proceeding between that company and Crompton Parkinson, Ltd. A.conditional agreement has been entered into between these companies, which embodies an offer by the CromptonParkinson concern to buy the whole of the 'issued shares of the Young Accumulator Co. The latter owns a large number of shares in its subsidiary company, Associated Electric Vehicle Manufacturers, Ltd., and Crompton Parkinson is also making an offer for these and for 'such other A.E.V.M. shares as are not held by the Young Co.
LT.-Cot. R. S, HuNIER, chairman ot the Car Collection Co., Ltd., has, we learn, recently been appointed to command a searchlight regiment in the Midlands. He was first commissioned in the First Surrey Rifles (21st London Regiment) in 1926, being promoted to Captain in 1934 and Major in 1938. After 15 years' continuous service in the Territorial Arm-y, his promotion is well merited.
MR. J. SHEARmAN has been elected chairman of the Automobile Research Committee of the Institution of Automobile Engineers for 1941-42 in place of Mr. W. A. Tookey, whose appointment to a post at the Ministry of Supply necessitated his resignation of the chairmanship. MR. A. G. BENSTEAD has been elected vice-chairman of the committee in place of Mr. George Lanchester.‘ SIR RICHARD RP:LIM:AVM:S. has tendered his resignation from the position of independent chairman of the Road
Haulage Central Wages Board. He became chairman of the old Road • Haulage National Joint Conciliation Board in 1934, and Chairman of the Road Haulage Central Wages Board in
1938. In the latter, capacity, Sir Richard was criticized on the occasion of the increase in road haulage wages in the early part of 1940, in a resolution adopted by 'the Federation of Yorkshire Road Transport, Employers. The resolution suggested that the appointment of the chairman of the old National Joint Conciliation Board as chairman of the new Central Board wa.i a course which had proved to be unsatisfactory, and e*pressed the opinion that there should be a change in the chairmanship of this particularly important body.